Love posting something like a tip for making running an old game easier on Reddit and the only engagement I get being some twats downvoting the post for no reason :angery:
The idea of giving posts a thumbs up or a thumbs down elevating the quality of discussions is such a :so-true: brained concept anyway
This is literally impossible to tell if it's a post and not a comment. Post scores are extremely abstract, they have very little to do with how many people actually upvote and downvote them. Each post massively fluctuates even if no one is touching it at all.
The most popular theory years ago was that there are bots that just downvote literally every post that gets posted on reddit, anywhere, by sorting by /r/all/new. But I'm pretty sure most "downvotes" posts receive on reddit literally just aren't real at all. It's just the reddit vote fuzzing.
Reddit is astroturfed to hell with paid services to promote posts with bot upvotes but also bot downvotes to suppress the competition to the promoted post. The algorithm gives major weight to the initial votes so just a couple of early downvotes can pretty much kill the potential of a post to take off.
so my posts weren't actually bad? :kitty-cri: